Audio by producer bruce_silverman

Host Bruce Silverman produced this series of programs to inform us about what needs changing in our community, our nation and our world. Today he looks at W.A.G.E.S. Women housecleaners in San Francisco have created their own cooperatively-owned cleaning companies.

Bruce Silverman presents another installment in his
"Answers Series." The topic is Hippo Water Rollers. Dirty water is the
number one cause of death and disease in the world. But many people
have to travel far to get clean water, and water is heavy to carry.
We'll hear about two ingenious, low-tech inventions to solve the
problem.

Drills are endangered primates living in Nigeria and Cameroon in West Africa. Two Portlanders have spent the last twenty years there trying to save this species, and they've had some success. Liza Gadsby is interviewed by KBOO's Bruce Silverman.

Janine Blaeloch of the Western Lands Project talks about questionable practices in use when agencies such as the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, and members of Congress, transfer ownership of public lands to private hands.